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Pitney Bowes Creates Small Business Partner Program to Accelerate Innovation and Enhance Client Value

[September 12, 2017]

Pitney Bowes Creates Small Business Partner Program to Accelerate Innovation and Enhance Client Value

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI),
a global technology company that provides innovative products and
solutions to power commerce, is accelerating innovation and value for
its SMB clients through its new Small
Business Partner Program, which includes Google (News - Alert) G Suite, Yext (NYSE:
YEXT), Acquisio, DocuSign and Nimble CRM. This partner ecosystem allows
partners to gain access to Pitney Bowes clients and offer their
innovative digital marketing and productivity applications available
through the Pitney
Bowes Commerce Cloud.

Shipping and mailing related applications are available on the newly
released SendPro C-Series office sending solution via the Google Android (News - Alert)
operating system. To scale an increased breadth of partner applications
over time, a Pitney Bowes App Store, leveraging Google Cloud's Orbitera
technology, will be released within the coming year. This App Store will
provide small and medium business customers access to applications
beyond shipping and mailing that will further enhance their productivity
and digital initiatives.

Pitney Bowes is leveraging the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud to deliver
these Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) solutions. The combination of
applications on the newly released SendPro C-Series device and those
offered through the Pitney Bowes App Store will help small and medium
businesses grow by reducing the complexity and cost of shipping and
mailing. It will help them more effectively market and communicate with
their customers by leveraging the applications made available through
the Pitney Bowes App Store. The Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud leverages
Google Cloud's Apigee API management platform to enable open
integrations and rapid new service creation by Pitney Bowes and third
party developers.

"The new Small Business Partner Program from Pitney Bowes represents
another major milestone in our transformative journey," said Mark
Shearer, executive vice president and president, Pitney Bowes Global SMB
Solutions. "Creating this partner ecosystem gives our more than 1
million small and medium businesses and ecommerce clients the
opportunity to use a broad range of cloud and mobile enabled business
applications to better reach their clients, manage their operations more
effectively and ultimately grow their businesses. Our digital platform
creates an entirely new client experience and offers the flexibility to
quickly add more partner applications and bring even greater value to
our small business client base in the near future."

"Businesses everywhere are harnessing the power of the cloud and APIs to
deliver rich, connected experiences for their customers," said Chet
Kapoor, vice president of Google's Apigee group. "Pitney Bowes is an
excellent example of a company that is rapidly transforming and
redefining a traditional industry with modern, data-driven, solutions.
We are proud that the Apigee API platform has been enabling Pitney
Bowes' digital transformation for many years -- and that they are now
leveraging other Google Cloud technologies to further enhance their
offerings for small-and-medium business customers."

Pitney Bowes Small Business Partner Program

Last year, Pitney Bowes launched the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, a
commerce enabler that provides access to solutions, analytics and APIs
across the full commerce continuum to help clients identify customers,
locate opportunities, enable communications, power shipping from
anywhere to everywhere, and manage payments. Adding these new partner
applications creates an entirely new and improved client experience,
while offering tremendous value to businesses looking to more
effectively connect with clients. The Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud
provides access to many new Partner Program applications and useful
integrations between Pitney Bowes and partner offerings including:

Google G Suite (SaaS Productivity Suite)- a cloud-based
productivity suite that helps teams communicate, collaborate and get
things done from anywhere and on any device. Pitney Bowes clients will
be able to subscribe to the Google G-Suite directly from their Pitney
Bowes' Your Account webpage.

Yext(Digital Marketing)- Yext puts business on the
map. The Yext Knowledge Engine™ lets companies manage their digital
knowledge in the cloud and sync it to over 100 maps, apps, search
engines, GPS systems, and social networks in the PowerListings®
Network, including Google, Apple (News - Alert), Facebook, Bing, and Yahoo. Yext
helps businesses around the globe facilitate face-to-face and digital
interactions that boost brand awareness, drive foot traffic, and
increase sales.

"Yext's mission is to put every business in control of its digital
knowledge everywhere," said Jonathan Cherins, executive vice president,
Partnerships, Yext. "We're proud to partner with Pitney Bowes to help
companies of every size stay competitive and drive more business."

Promote by Acquisio (Digital Marketing) - an advertising
solution that helps businesses get new customers on Google AdWords
with zero expertise needed. Promote uses machine learning and
automation to create tailored ads for 180+ business categories
instantly, plus provides optimization, on-the-go text notifications
for incoming leads and tracking of all recorded incoming calls from
ads.

"We're proud to partner with Pitney Bowes, a company as dedicated to the
success of small businesses as Acquisio. Local businesses simply do not
have the time or expertise to grow their business with online
advertising. We are solving that problem with a dead simple, yet
sophisticated tool that automates everything for them - so they don't
have to pay agency fees and still get the best possible campaign
performance available on the market," said Marc Poirier, chief executive
officer, Acquisio.

Nimble (News - Alert) CRM (Digital Sales and Marketing) - Nimble is a simple
social sales and marketing CRM that helps you grow your business.
Nimble works seamlessly with Microsoft Office 365 and Google GSuite to
enable companies to intelligently nurture relationships across email
and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIN and
everywhere they work.

"As social media and the cloud continue to revolutionize the way people
buy, businesses are scrambling to find new ways to manage relationships
at scale," said Jon Ferrara, chief executive officer, Nimble Inc. "We
are delighted to partner with Pitney Bowes and help ecommerce customers
cultivate relationships in an authentic way by replacing spreadsheets,
impersonal email blasts and time-consuming Google searches with
auto-generated social business insights on people and companies."

DocuSign (eSignature) - DocuSign is the global eSignature and
digital transaction management (DTM) leader, with over 300,000
customers and more than 200 million users around the world. The
company's solutions enable people to sign, send and manage documents
anytime, anywhere, on any device, with confidence, and they replace
printing, faxing, scanning and overnighting documents with the
easiest, fastest, most trusted way to make every approval and decision
digital.

"We are excited to join the Small Business Partner Program from Pitney
Bowes Partner to help SMBs in their digital transformation journey. Our
leadership in eSignatures combined with Pitney Bowes' leadership in
customer communication will help those SMBs optimize their operations
and grow their business," said Mark Register, senior vice president:
business development and channels, DocuSign.

Over time, Pitney Bowes SMB clients will be able to leverage their
Pitney Bowes Purchase Power payments solutions for a broader set of
Pitney Bowes and third party services. This will provide tremendous
convenience, help with cash flow, and loyalty program benefits.

SendPro C-Series

Last week, Pitney Bowes introduced the SendPro C-Series, which
transforms the traditional postage meter into an all-in-one office
sending solution. It is a multi-carrier platform that enables offices of
all sizes to select the ideal sending option for every parcel, letter
and flat they send, while also providing full tracking and delivering
savings across carriers.

The C-Series is based on the mobile Android operating system and the new
Pitney Bowes Small Business Partner Program, and will allow Pitney Bowes
to deliver a broad range of new web and android applications directly
and rapidly to the device.

At launch, the C-Series featured three partner applications in addition
to its core shipping and mailing applications:

Universal Tracking with Google Maps - a package tracking tool
that will map your UPS, FedEx, and other major carriers' package's
progress with Google Maps.

Mailing and Shipping Advisory Tool - provides a simple overview
of all the popular services and terms provided by carriers. This
allows customers to quickly learn terminology and services to make
informed decisions on selecting services for their mailing and
shipping needs.

The SendPro C-Series leverages Smartlink Internet of Things (IoT)
technology to improve ease of use, enable new services and provide
visibility and control over postage and shipping spend. AutoInk enables
just in time ink deliveries at significant cost savings. AutoPostage
refills and AutoRate updates ensure the system is always accurate, up to
date and ready to use. The Commerce Cloud Insights dashboard provides
analytics on mailing and shipping spend, trends and savings
opportunities.

"Company leaders, particularly small business owners, do not have time
to constantly worry about updating and securing the tools they use to
run their business," said Noah Wasmer, senior vice president, Mobile
Products, End-User Computing, VMware. "By leveraging Workspace ONE,
Pitney Bowes' clients can benefit from a simple, over-the-air process
when it comes to updating their SendPro C-Series software as well as
advanced security features so data is protected on IoT devices."

Today, we are also announcing a Global Hackathon open to millions of
developers to create applications on the C-Series device platform.
Pitney Bowes has partnered with Google Developer Group, and other major
technology developer communities to source developers that will create
next generation applications for small and mid-sized businesses. This
global developer community will collaborate on the C-Series platform to
accelerate the innovation that will drive outcomes for small and
mid-sized businesses.

Continuous Innovation

The Pitney Bowes App Store will continue to grow over time and create
more value for small and medium businesses and ecommerce clients by
delivering solutions with speed and agility that help solve real
business challenges. The Pitney Bowes App Store will feature even more
relevant applications over the course of the coming year. This may also
include the ability to purchase applications as well as offering single
sign on to allow small businesses a means to access many applications in
a simpler way.

Shipping will drive the next phase of our transformation. Last week we
announced our intention to acquire Newgistics, an Austin, Texas-based
provider of parcel delivery, returns, fulfillment and digital commerce
solutions for retailers and ecommerce brands selling in the U.S. The
SendPro C-Series family of products and shipping solutions, combined
with our acquisition of Newgistics strengthens our presence in the
shipping and sending market.

For the last 100 years, Pitney Bowes has taken the complexity out of the
mail process through innovation, technology and services. Today, the
Company continues to expand its expertise by combining the strength of
physical mail and shipping with digital experiences in mailing and
shipping, Presort and Global Ecommerce to simplify the challenges and
complexity of the growing parcel market.

Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company powering billions
of transactions - physical and digital - in the connected and borderless
world of commerce. Clients around the world, including 90 percent of the
Fortune 500, rely on products, solutions, services and data from Pitney
Bowes in the areas of customer information management, location
intelligence, customer engagement, shipping, mailing, and global
ecommerce. And with the innovative Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, clients
can access the broad range of Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and
APIs to drive commerce. For additional information visit Pitney Bowes,
the Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com.